Nik Overtoom and Phil Gruen in the School of Design and Construction have been awarded a 2026-2027 WSU College of Arts and Humanities Interloper Grant for their proposed project for this summer and fall, “Ordering the Palouse: Classical Traditions and Architectural Meaning in an Agricultural Landscape.”
Sue Peabody gave two talks over the past week: “Telling Furcy’s Story: Voices and Contexts,” Zentrum für Europäische Geschichts- und KulturWissenschaften, Universität Heidelberg on 20 April 2026, and “From Archives to Exhibit: The Making of Furcy’s Story,” Virginia Tech (via Zoom), 16 April 2026.
Jesse Spohnholz has accepted a residential fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study (located in Princeton, NJ) for Spring 2027. While there, Spohnholz will be working on his next book project, which explores the relationship between religious refugees, utopian thinking, and global colonialism during the dramatic transformations in understandings of the world and the cosmos […]
Marlene presented her talk “The Only Airline You’ll Ever Love”: Air Jamaica and the Paradoxes of Postcolonial Mobility” as a part of the Canada Seminar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. She explores how Air Jamaica, as a migratory infrastructure, simultaneously facilitated the formation of a diasporic cosmopolitan identity and served […]
Tucker Senter (Samish Nation), a junior majoring in social studies at Washington State University, earned a prestigious position at the Hoover Institution’s Indigenous Student Seminar this summer. Tucker will join approximately twenty other Native American students to study US Native policy and hear from a variety of Indigenous entrepreneurs, scholars, and community leaders. The seminar […]
Sue Peabody participated in a episode, “Abandoned Histories,” for the American Historical Association’s History in Focus Podcast: https://www.historians.org/podcast/abandoned-histories/. We discuss a variety of research projects that we have shelved for various reasons – ethical, practical, intellectual – over the years.
Marlene Gaynair presented her paper “’Five Flights a Day’: Air Jamaica and the Spread of Post-Colonial Jamaican Identity” today at the semiannual Lees Seminar at Rutgers University – Camden. This chapter from her book examines how Jamaica’s national airline facilitated the formation of a diasporic cosmopolitan identity for Jamaicans and served as a vehicle of foreign control […]
Nik Overtoom was featured in the WSU Libraries’ Crimson Reads Newsletter for March 2026, “Authors Reveal Genesis of Their 2025 Books.” https://libraries.wsu.edu/blog/2026/03/13/wsu-crimson-reads-authors-reveal-genesis-of-their-2025-books-panel-on-march-26/. He also was an invited panelist for the Crimson Reads 13th Annual Celebration of WSU Authors, hosted by Terrell Library, for the discussion, “Teaching the Future: WSU Textbook Authors on Writing and Publishing,” held on […]
L Heidenreich was interviewed for The First 100: Chicanas Changing History project. Their work “Skirt Drama,” and “To(o) q/Queer Aztlan” was published in Jota: A Queer Latina y Latinx Anthology (Flowersong Press).
Eugene Smelyansky was a guest on the American Medieval podcast, hosted by historian Matthew Gabriele (Virginia Tech). Eugene got to discuss what sparked his interest in studying marginalized peoples in medieval Europe and the enduring appeal of all things medieval in our own time. He also discussed his most recent book, Medievalisms and Russia: The Contest for Imaginary […]